Defence Exams (NDA, CDS, CAPF) Current Affairs 2026

Part 1

1 Oct – 10 Oct

Defence & Security: 12.

• The Ministry of Defence signed a Rs 661.50 crore contract with BrahMos Aerospace for fire control systems and launchers on Navy ships, with at least 68% indigenous content.
• The Navy commissioned INS Mangrol, the third of eight Mahe-class anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft, at Mumbai. It is named after Mangrol, a fishing harbour in Junagadh district, Gujarat, and has over 80% indigenous content.
• Nagpur-based Solar Defence and Aerospace Limited (SDAL) delivered 450 Nagastra-1R loitering munitions, worth Rs 158 crore, to the Indian Army. The drone has over 80% indigenous components.
• From 1 November 2026, the CISF will rename its National Capital Region sector as the GBMM and MRTS sector, covering government buildings, museums, monuments and mass rapid transit systems.
• 1 Oct — Security forces killed Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Musa alias Asif Fauji at Gurwatkalan in Budgam under Operation Sheruwali; the Home Ministry says all four senior LeT commanders active in J&K since 2022 are now neutralised.
• 2 Oct — The Centre and the Ladakh administration added 28 places to the Survey of India map of Ladakh, including 10 peaks such as Kanishka Peak and Zorawar Peak, passes, glaciers and areas like Gogra and Kuksel.
• 5 Oct — The first India-UAE exercise "Mountain Guardian 2026" began at Chaubatia, Uttarakhand, and runs till 18 October. Each side sent 46 personnel to train for high-altitude warfare.
• 6 Oct — The Navy's first indigenous Fleet Support Ship Surya was launched at Hindustan Shipyard, Visakhapatnam, part of a Rs 19,000 crore contract for five ships; the keel of the fifth was also laid.
• 7 Oct — The Indian Coast Guard held the 12th National Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX-2026) off Paradip, Odisha. Observers from 30 countries watched a simulated mass rescue.
• 8 Oct — Uttar Pradesh's Defence Industrial Corridor has six nodes: Lucknow, Kanpur, Jhansi, Agra, Aligarh and Chitrakoot, as noted while the state pitched for Japanese investment.
• 8 Oct — Jharkhand Police planned a review on 8 October of the Jharkhand Jaguar, the state's anti-Naxal Special Task Force, as Naxal activity has fallen sharply. The Indian Reserve Battalion is also being reviewed.
• 10 Oct — The Navy's next-generation offshore patrol vessel Shreyas (Yard 3040) was launched at GRSE, Kolkata. It is the third of four such ships GRSE is building, while Goa Shipyard builds seven.

Part 2

13 Oct – 23 Oct

Defence & Security: 12.

• 13 Oct — The Indian Coast Guard inducted the first indigenous ALH MK-III helicopter (CG 875) at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, into Coast Guard Region (West). It is armed with a 12.7 mm machine gun.
• 13 Oct — A three-week Defence Correspondents Course for 24 journalists concluded at Tezpur, Assam; the valedictory function was chaired by Lt Gen Neeraj Shukla, GOC of Gajraj Corps.
• 14 Oct — DRDO tested its Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) platform on the live network of the Proof and Experimental Establishment at Chandipur, Odisha, to secure trial data from weapon tests.
• 15 Oct — The Defence Ministry signed contracts worth Rs 4,106 crore: Rs 2,563 crore with NSIL for the GSAT-7C communication satellite for the IAF and Rs 1,543 crore with BDL for Varunastra heavy torpedoes for the Navy.
• 16 Oct — Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan commissioned INS Samarthak, the Navy's first indigenous multi-purpose vessel, at Karwar. It was built by L&T at Kattupalli and has over 75% indigenous content.
• 16 Oct — The Assam Regiment of the Indian Army won a gold medal at Exercise Cambrian Patrol 2026 in Wales, UK, a British Army patrol competition begun in 1959 with over 100 teams.
• 19 Oct — New Zealand sent observers for the first time to AUSTRAHIND 2026, the 5th India-Australia exercise at Thiruvananthapuram.
• 21 Oct — The Defence Ministry signed a contract worth about Rs 770 crore with Bharat Electronics Limited for the Improved Low-Level Light-Weight Radar for the Army. The 33rd SIMBEX India-Singapore naval exercise began at Visakhapatnam.
• 21 Oct — The Defence Ministry (Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh) signed the Rs 770 crore BEL contract for the improved Low-Level Light-Weight Radar (LLLR-I), which counters drone and cruise-missile threats. It upgrades DRDO-LRDE's Aslesha radar with four GaN-based AESA panels for 360 degree cover.
• 21 Oct — The 33rd SIMBEX-2026 (Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise) is held at Visakhapatnam on 21-26 October. Singapore's ship is RSS Supreme, a Formidable-class stealth frigate; SIMBEX began in 1994 as "Lion King".
• 21 Oct — The India-Russia naval exercise INDRA 2026 concluded off Vladivostok, with INS Sahyadri taking part. INS Trishul made a port call at Lisbon on 21 October.
• 23 Oct — The Home Ministry and the Indian Army started a pilot to train 600 Civil Defence master trainers (50 each from 12 States/UTs) in a 3-day course by the second week of November. Each will train 100 volunteers (about 60,000 in all), following the PM's Red Fort call of 15 August 2026.

Part 3

23 Oct – 25 Oct

Defence & Security: 12.

• 23 Oct — The Army Commanders' Conference was held in New Delhi on 21-23 October under COAS General Dhiraj Seth. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addressed the concluding session.
• 23 Oct — Rajnath Singh was reported to release the new Land Warfare Doctrine, a 20-30 year vision stressing drones, AI and precision weapons; it replaces the 2018 doctrine. He also released the annual United Nations Journal.
• 23 Oct — At the Army Commanders' Conference, Rajnath Singh felicitated UN peacekeepers and said defence production hit a record Rs 1.78 lakh crore in 2025-26, with exports of about Rs 38,000 crore.
• 23 Oct — DRDO ARDE (Pune) shortlisted SSS Defence and the Kalyani Group as development-cum-production partners for India's first indigenous 20 mm aviation gun and turret for HAL's ALH Mk-IV (Rudra) and LCH Prachand, with production split 60:40.
• 23 Oct — Solar Defence and Aerospace Ltd (Nagpur) delivered Nagastra loitering munitions to the Army; trials were held at Mahajan Field Firing Range, Rajasthan, in August 2026. Reports differ on the variant name and delivery date.
• 23 Oct — The CISF will be restructured into sector-specific functional commands from 1 November.
• 23 Oct — The 9th India-Brazil-South Africa naval exercise IBSAMAR 2026 concluded in South Africa.
• 23 Oct — Akash air-defence missiles were reportedly sold to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
• 23 Oct — From 1 November 2026, Ranchi becomes the national command centre for CISF coal-sector security, as the CISF Eastern Sector headquarters is converted into the "National Coal Sector".
• 24 Oct — DRDO's naval materials lab (NMRL) completed the Setting to Work Phase-2 of its Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) energy module at L&T, Hazira (Gujarat); it is to be fitted on a Kalvari-class submarine by MDL in early 2027.
• 24 Oct — The Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue (IPRD-2026) will be held on 3-5 November at Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi, with the theme "Science, Technology and Academic Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific". The National Maritime Foundation is the knowledge partner.
• 25 Oct — The Air Force Day Aerial Display 2026, themed Wings over Ganges, was scheduled for Namo Ghat, Varanasi, with PM Modi as chief guest and the Tejas, LCH Prachand, Su-30MKI and Rafale taking part.

Part 1

1 Oct – 5 Oct

Summits, Agreements & Exercises: 15.

• The 1st BIMSTEC Home Ministers' Meeting was held in New Delhi, hosted by Amit Shah. It adopted the Delhi Declaration and approved a convention against human trafficking and a plan on drug control.
• India and Canada signed 34 agreements and MoUs worth about CAD 300 million at a business event in Karnataka. The fifth round of CEPA talks was held in Ottawa on 5-9 October.
• Karmayogi Bharat and OpenAI signed an MoU for AI training of civil servants on the iGOT Karmayogi platform, which has over 1.7 crore registered employees. Karmayogi Bharat is a not-for-profit SPV set up by DoPT.
• C-DAC and Bank of India signed an MoU for a Quantum Ecosystem for Financial Innovation.
• IICA and the Association of ARCs signed an MoU for a Post Graduate Insolvency Programme, with a joint conference in February 2027 for 10 years of IBC and 25 years of the SARFAESI Act.
• During CM Vishnu Deo Sai's Singapore visit (3-6 October), Chhattisgarh signed a skill-development MoU with ITE Education Services. It was also invited to host a ₹1,500 crore, 300 MW solar project with storage by Sunstream Green Energy.
• AIIMS Patna and Jhpiego India signed an MoU on maternal and newborn health and midwifery. A roundtable will feed into a proposed "Patna Declaration" on Networks of Care across Bihar.
• Nalanda University (Rajgir, Bihar) signed an MoU with CSIR-TKDL to work on traditional knowledge, IPR and the traditional cultural expressions of Bihar. TKDL was set up in 2001 to stop wrong patents.
• Nalanda University signed an MoU with the National University of Asuncion, Paraguay, marking 65 years of India-Paraguay ties. Vice-Chancellor Sachin Chaturvedi signed it virtually.
• CM Nayab Singh Saini attended the SING Forum in Singapore, where Haryana set up a Merlion Desk to fast-track Singapore investment; about Rs 5,500 crore of proposals followed, including Rs 3,000 crore for health and wellness.
• CM Saini was chief guest at India-Sweden Innovation Day 2026 in Sweden, where he invited investors to the Happening Haryana summit 2027 and cited IKEA's Rs 3,500 crore project in Gurugram.
• Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar told a Czech delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlicek at Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru, that Karnataka wants to become a long-term investment partner of the Czech Republic.
• Karnataka will upgrade about 500 Karnataka Public Schools (KPS) with a Rs 2,000 crore result-based loan from the Asian Development Bank, aiming for 500 new KPS facilities by 2030.
• 1 Oct — NPCIL and the Gujarat State Electricity Corporation (GSECL) signed an MoU on 1 October 2026 to identify sites in Gujarat for new nuclear power projects of about 4,000 MW, with investment of nearly Rs 1 lakh crore.
• 5 Oct — The Centre and West Bengal signed an MoU for four regional airports under the UDAN scheme, at Chhara (Purulia), Kalaikunda (West Midnapore), Balurghat (South Dinajpur) and Hasimara (Alipurduar), with Rs 29,000 crore planned over ten years.

Part 2

7 Oct – 22 Oct

Summits, Agreements & Exercises: 15.

• 7 Oct — Swiss President Guy Parmelin made a state visit to India (5-7 October) and attended the 2nd India-EFTA Prosperity Summit, marking one year of the India-EFTA trade pact (TEPA). Both sides signed five agreements.
• 7 Oct — The 19th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas convention will be held in Kolkata from 7 to 9 January 2027, organised by the Ministry of External Affairs with the West Bengal Government. The 18th was held in Bhubaneswar in January 2025.
• 8 Oct — Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said the state has secured nearly ₹90,000 crore of investment MoUs with Japanese companies, building on the Kashi-Kyoto cultural link and covering manufacturing, green hydrogen, pharmaceuticals and renewable energy.
• 9 Oct — Gujarat's Seva Setu 2.1 welfare-camp drive ended its second phase on 9 October 2026. The first phase identified eligible beneficiaries, and the second phase delivered services and benefits on the spot through cluster-level camps.
• 13 Oct — The 21st Maritime State Development Council met in Mumbai under Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. It set March 2027 as the deadline for One Nation One Port reforms and Maritime Single Window integration in all ports.
• 14 Oct — The Union Cabinet approved India's accession to the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA), a regional fisheries body adopted in July 2006 and in force since June 2012, based at Le Port, Reunion.
• 14 Oct — India was a Cooperating Non-Contracting Party of SIOFA since 2022 and is reported to move to Contracting Party status; deposit of the accession is not confirmed.
• 15 Oct — Under PM-SETU, the Skill Ministry signed an agreement with AM/NS India and the Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh governments to upgrade nine ITIs. The Surat cluster will upgrade five ITIs at Rs 240 crore.
• 16 Oct — India approved the rollover of a Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion) currency swap facility for the Maldives under the SAARC Currency Swap Framework, announced by the High Commission in Male.
• 20 Oct — The India-New Zealand free trade agreement came into force on 20 October 2026, and the first consignment under it was flagged off from Chennai.
• 22 Oct — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited India on 21-23 October, the first visit by a Polish PM since 2010. He held talks with PM Modi at Hyderabad House, New Delhi, on 22 October.
• 22 Oct — India and Poland plan cooperation in space, nuclear energy, semiconductors, AI, quantum and critical minerals, with an MoU on geology, mining and critical minerals to be negotiated. Reports differ on whether any MoUs were signed.
• 22 Oct — Poland said it intends to join the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), and India invited it to the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI). Both countries also agreed to revive the agriculture working group and discuss direct flights.
• 22 Oct — India and Poland have had diplomatic ties since 1954. Their Strategic Partnership began in August 2024 during Modi's Warsaw visit, and an Action Plan covers 2024-2028. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the EU in 2004.
• 22 Oct — India-Poland history includes the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar sheltering about 1,000 Polish children at Balachadi (Jamnagar) in World War II, and the Valivade camp (Kolhapur) hosting over 5,000 refugees. Poland also helped evacuate Indian students in Operation Ganga (2022).

Part 3

22 Oct – 24 Oct

Summits, Agreements & Exercises: 15.

• 22 Oct — PM Modi received Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the UAE and took a call from Israeli PM Netanyahu on 22 October.
• 22 Oct — Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal visited Germany (India Centre at DGAP, Berlin) and the Netherlands with about 100 businesses.
• 23 Oct — The 2nd India-Poland Business Forum was held in Bengaluru on 23 October during Tusk's visit.
• 23 Oct — The Gujarat government and the Scottish Government signed an agreement to cooperate in renewable energy, trade, investment, sports, education and research.
• 23 Oct — The English Court of Appeal allowed the UAE investor RAKIA to go ahead with arbitration against India over an Andhra Pradesh bauxite project, rejecting India's appeal.
• 23 Oct — The Telangana government, Microsoft, 1M1B and the MeitY Startup Hub launched a green skills and AI Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad.
• 23 Oct — At the two-day Ladakh Pashmina Conclave in Leh, the Textiles Ministry and the Ladakh industries department signed an MoU, a postal stamp on GI-tagged Ladakh Pashmina was released, and a goal of 4 lakh pashmina goats in three years was set.
• 24 Oct — The 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum will be held at the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan, New Delhi, on 26-27 October 2026, with a preparatory meeting of delegation secretaries on 25 October.
• 24 Oct — The BRICS Parliamentary Forum has four sessions (Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation, Sustainability); one source gives its theme as "Strengthening Parliaments for People-Centric Development".
• 24 Oct — The 61st meeting of the International Committee of Legal Metrology (CIML) will be held in New Delhi on 26-28 October 2026, the first time in India, by the Department of Consumer Affairs with OIML (set up 1955).
• 24 Oct — Bihar's Industries Department signed MoUs with 12 industrial units for proposed investment of Rs 4,092 crore, led by Mint Life Sciences (Rs 1,500 crore) and ABIS Group (Rs 600 crore); these are proposals, not confirmed investment.
• 24 Oct — Rajasthan plans to meet the water needs of Sikar, Churu and Jhunjhunu through the Yamuna water agreement, while the Narmada water agreement is meant for Barmer, Sanchore, Jalore, Bhinmal and Raniwara.
• 24 Oct — Farmvision Pvt Ltd signed an MoU in Poland with nursery firm Jankowski to bring European nursery technology to India, with a joint venture making planting material for J&K horticulture from 2027.
• 24 Oct — NLC India Limited (NLCIL) signed an MoU with TNPL (Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited) for sustainable pulpwood harvesting, according to a report of 24 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — Hariom Pipe Industries signed an MoU for a Rs 700 crore steel plant in Andhra Pradesh, according to a report of 24 October 2026.

Part 1

14 one-liners

Science & Technology: 14.

• France confirmed the world's first known human death from Shamonda virus, an animal orthobunyavirus spread by biting Culicoides midges; the patient was severely immunocompromised and the WHO rates the risk to the public as low.
• A Falcon 9 rocket launched 130 payloads on the Transporter-18 rideshare mission from Vandenberg, USA. It carried Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite to test AI chips in orbit.
• Scientists at ARIES, Nainital, estimated that the blazar OJ 287, about 4 billion light-years away, has a central black hole of at least 3.89 billion solar masses in a rare binary system.
• NASA's Perseverance rover set a new off-Earth driving record of 45.22 km on Mars, passing the 45.16 km covered by Opportunity.
• NASA named Indian-origin astronomer Ramya Anche as the Principal Investigator of the PUFFINS small-satellite mission, planned for launch in 2030.
• ICAR-CPRI's Kufri Jamunia is a biofortified purple potato rich in anthocyanins, vitamin C, iron and zinc, recommended for the North Indian plains to fight hidden hunger.
• Japan's space agency JAXA launched the MMX spacecraft on an H3 rocket to collect at least 10 g of samples from Mars's moon Phobos. It reaches Mars in August 2027 and returns in 2031.
• C-DOT opened its sixth Centre of Excellence at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, covering wireless, quantum, cybersecurity and 5G Advanced/6G.
• ARIES, Nainital (DST), studied how black hole spin links to quasi-periodic oscillations. The Raman Research Institute (Bengaluru) reported a rare accretion disk around the X-ray pulsar Centaurus X-3.
• BHASHINI and IISc released text-to-speech models for the Sourashtra language, from MeitY's DIBD and IISc SPIRE Lab, available on the AIKosh platform.
• Vultr announced a 20 MW AI supercluster in Chennai.
• IISER Thiruvananthapuram made a solid, magnesium hydridomethylzincate, which releases hydrogen and methane when heated.
• A Bridge Health Monitoring System with sensors and IoT will track the condition of Vikramshila Setu, the 4.7 km Ganga bridge at Bhagalpur opened in 2001. A similar system is planned for the new parallel bridge.
• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan opened new facilities at ICAR-IIAB, Garhkhatanga, Ranchi, and laid the foundation of a guest house costing Rs 119 crore.

Part 2

1 Oct – 15 Oct

Science & Technology: 14.

• Haryana formally launched a statewide Tele-ECG service on 29 May 2026 across 600 government health centres; each test costs Rs 89, and the target is about 3.28 lakh ECGs a year.
• Rohtak is the pilot district in Haryana for an ICMR-funded Verbal Autopsy Project, led with AIIMS New Delhi, which will study about 5,000 deaths over roughly eight months to find probable causes of death.
• CM Pushkar Singh Dhami released the Uttarakhand Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy-2026 along with technical reports on the state's Gross Environment Product (GEP) for 2023-24 and 2024-25.
• Tamil Nadu became the first state to take the dengue vaccine to the field, with a study at the Kadayanallur government hospital in Tenkasi with the National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai.
• Tamil Nadu met the 95-95-95 HIV target in September 2026; HIV prevalence fell from 0.40% in 2010 to 0.19% in 2023 and 1,63,151 people are on treatment.
• Navachetana is an AI-enabled screening programme in Andhra Pradesh that helps find developmental delays in children aged 0 to 6 years at an early stage.
• T-Hub in Hyderabad launched Flashpoint, a venture studio with Kheyti (agri-tech) and Dhruva Space (space-tech), where founders keep 100% ownership.
• WiSig Networks, incubated at IIT Hyderabad, opened orders for its indigenous 32TR Massive MIMO 5G radio on the n78 band, with bulk shipments planned for 2027.
• 1 Oct — The Rajasthan Health Department announced the "Sahi Khan-Pan, Swasth Rajasthan" food safety campaign for 3 to 16 October 2026. Its message is "Eat safe, stay healthy, eat local, beat adulteration".
• 4 Oct — The 17th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP 2026) was held at IIT Hyderabad from 4 to 9 October 2026, the first time in India.
• 6 Oct — The Cabinet approved the CM SRISTHI scheme to promote research, innovation and technology hubs in higher and technical education, covering public universities, government polytechnics, ICT Mumbai, COEP Pune and DBATU Lonere.
• 9 Oct — The UP Cabinet approved the Uttar Pradesh Artificial Intelligence Mission (UP-AIM). It targets support for 100 AI startups, training of five lakh youth, and AI centres in all 75 districts, working as a society under the IT and Electronics Department.
• 12 Oct — Scientists of the Birbal Sahni Institute described a new fossil plant, Tetrameristophyllum makumensis, from the Makum Coalfield in Tinsukia; the leaf is about 24 million years old, from the Late Oligocene.
• 15 Oct — The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet cleared ₹1,697.62 crore for the National Ayush Mission and ₹3,535 crore for Ayush colleges and hospitals, as part of about ₹27,050 crore of proposals approved on 15 October.

Part 3

15 Oct – 23 Oct

Science & Technology: 14.

• 15 Oct — The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune hosted the APARC Early Career Researcher Workshop 2026, a curtain-raiser for the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave (ESTIC 2026).
• 16 Oct — Orissa High Court Chief Justice Harish Tandon flagged off two Mobile e-Sewa Vans with internet and video-conferencing so witnesses can record testimony remotely. They also support Mobile Lok Adalats.
• 16 Oct — NIT Rourkela researchers got a patent for a technology that removes fluoride from water using zirconium-modified activated carbon from jackfruit peel, which removed 90 to 97% in lab tests.
• 19 Oct — Three Bodoland University teachers, Hemen Sarma, Sanjay Basumatary and Sanjib Baruah, were named in the 2026 Stanford-Elsevier list of the world's top 2% scientists, which is built from Scopus citation data.
• 20 Oct — Japan's MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) probe was launched on an H3 rocket from Tanegashima on 20 October (JST) to study Mars's moons Phobos and Deimos. It carries the French-German IDEFIX rover.
• 20 Oct — The Madhya Pradesh Semiconductor Summit 2026 was announced for 23-24 October at Indore. The state's Semiconductor Policy 2025 reportedly offers a 25% subsidy and electricity at ₹2 per unit for 10 years.
• 22 Oct — CSIR-CCMB found that DZIP3 is part of a cellular antiviral alarm switch.
• 22 Oct — Phage therapy was used on a 72-year-old with a resistant knee-implant infection at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.
• 22 Oct — The Union Health Ministry approved the start of Ladakh's first medical college at Leh from the academic year 2027-28, with phased recruitment against 103 sanctioned regular posts.
• 23 Oct — MoS Jitin Prasada opened an STPI incubation facility of about 30,000 sq ft at the IT Park, Sahastradhara Road, Dehradun.
• 23 Oct — The Indian Airport Pavement Symposium (IAPS) 2026 was inaugurated at CSIR-CRRI, New Delhi by CSIR Director General Dr N. Kalaiselvi.
• 23 Oct — Maharashtra recorded its 50th deceased organ donation of 2026 at Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai (22 October), and the 51st followed at Jupiter Hospital, Thane on 23 October, under state allocation guidelines of the ZTCC Mumbai.
• 23 Oct — The Jammu and Kashmir government stepped up action to make the Union Territory TB-free under the PM TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan.
• 23 Oct — SKUAST-Kashmir set up two community units in Batlan village, Tangdhar, to conserve the indigenous Karnah sheep, each with four ewes and one ram, under the ICAR-NBAGR network project on animal genetic resources.

Part 4

23 Oct – 25 Oct

Science & Technology: 14.

• 23 Oct — The Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Science (UPSIFS), Lucknow, hosted the three-day TechSangam (23-25 October) on AI, quantum technology, cybercrime and deepfakes, with CM Yogi Adityanath as chief guest on day two.
• 24 Oct — Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated AATAL, the Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol Toxicity Analysis Laboratory, at IITM Delhi under Mission Mausam; it will trace the sources of air pollutants in real time.
• 24 Oct — Gujarat launched healthcare projects worth about Rs 500 crore across the state, including a Rs 223 crore neuroscience centre in Ahmedabad.
• 24 Oct — Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda said the Centre approved 320 new PG medical seats in six Himachal Pradesh colleges with about Rs 415 crore under the Rs 15,000 crore scheme to add 10,000 seats in five years.
• 24 Oct — ARTPARK, the Karnataka-backed AI and robotics technology park in Bengaluru, plans to expand, with BRAINZ (Bangalore Robotics and AI Innovation Zone), ArtGarage and ArtLabs driving its next phase.
• 24 Oct — Keralam introduced a generic medicine for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic muscle disease. The health minister said there is no cause for concern and will clarify in the Assembly on 26 October.
• 24 Oct — Tamil Nadu is preparing AI-enabled e-Sevai 2.0, a platform meant to bring about 1,000 government services under one roof.
• 24 Oct — Andhra Pradesh plans two space cities, one near Tirupati and one at Lepakshi, according to a report of 24 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) performed the Northeast's first liver transplant at a government hospital, a first for Assam's public health system.
• 24 Oct — The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations (CIRI) of the University of Kashmir was given Centre of Excellence status by the ICMR for its biomedical research.
• 24 Oct — Telangana unveiled an AI avatar of IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu, presented as its 'AI minister', at DevFest 2026 in Hyderabad as the state aims to become a global AI hub.
• 25 Oct — The PM said the e-Sanjeevani telemedicine platform has enabled about 50 crore tele-consultations, citing a Jarawa child on Baratang Island (Andaman and Nicobar) who was diagnosed with pneumonia through a remote specialist.
• 25 Oct — He highlighted the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre at IIT Madras, which aims to build 3D maps of 100 human brains using the Param Shakti supercomputer and share the data openly with scientists worldwide.
• 25 Oct — AIIMS Nagpur received a ₹30 crore sanction from the National Centre for Disease Control for a Biosafety Level-III laboratory, expected to start in about a year and reduce dependence on NIV Pune.

Part 1

14 one-liners

Environment & Ecology: 14.

• Researchers described a new deep-sea species, the Arabian black electric ray (Tetronarce ramanamurthyi), from the south-eastern Arabian Sea, the first record of the genus Tetronarce in the northern Indian Ocean.
• A British Antarctic Survey study found that breeding chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island in the South Sandwich Islands fell by about 63% in 14 years; the island hosts the world's largest penguin colony.
• The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) provisionally approved US$21.6 million for Nepal after the August 2026 Bhote Koshi glacial flood, its first disaster-specific funding approval.
• India added Sukhna Wetland (Chandigarh) and Sauj Jheel (Uttar Pradesh) as Ramsar sites, taking the country's total to 103 wetlands of international importance.
• WWF's Living Planet Report 2026 found that monitored wildlife populations fell by an average of 73% between 1970 and 2022. Freshwater species declined most, by 85%.
• The WMO warned that the 2026-27 El Niño could be among the strongest on record, which may bring heavier Northeast Monsoon rain to Tamil Nadu.
• Bud rot disease was reported in coconut-growing areas of Karnataka.
• Local women, called Bagh Didis, are reporting tiger movement and spreading safety awareness around Kanha Tiger Reserve; about 20 women joined in the first phase.
• The Kukurjhap Dam at Barhat, Jamui, will become an eco-tourism hub on a PPP model through the Bihar State Eco-Tourism Development Society; the Unified Eco-Tourism Master Plan covers 7 areas.
• As part of Delhi's winter pollution-control plan, charges at authorised parking sites will be doubled from 1 November 2026 until 28 February 2027 to discourage private vehicle use.
• The Gangetic dolphin count in the Bhagalpur stretch of the Ganga rose from about 95 to nearly 200 in 27 years. Official counts were 188 (2018) and 207 (2021); a new survey report is awaited.
• Ghatora wetland in Bihpur block, Bhagalpur district, has entered the process for Ramsar Site status. The district administration asked officials to send the proposal quickly.
• Patna Women's College and the Bihar State Biodiversity Board signed an MoU on biodiversity research, training and outreach. The Biological Diversity Act, 2002 governs conservation and benefit-sharing.
• Valmiki Tiger Reserve in West Champaran is being developed as Bihar's vulture conservation hub, with work started in the Gonauli range. It would be India's 9th vulture conservation and breeding centre.

Part 2

2 Oct

Environment & Ecology: 14.

• The Environment Ministry gave final environmental and CRZ clearance to the greenfield Shree Jagannath International Airport at Sipasarubali, Puri, which will cover 471.348 hectares.
• Five infant orangutans found in Balasore district in September are being cared for at Nandankanan Zoological Park, Bhubaneswar. Indonesian experts are expected in November 2026 to assess them and trace their origin.
• An international research centre for Olive Ridley turtles is planned at Berhampur University, Ganjam. Operation Olivia, started in the early 1980s, protects nesting turtles on the Odisha coast.
• Uttarakhand began installing its first Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) early warning system at Vasundhara Tal, Chamoli; the state has 344 identified glacial lakes, of which 13 are high-risk.
• Karnataka has fitted GPS devices, trackers and dash-cams in all safari vehicles of the Bandipur and Nagarahole tiger reserves, to stop route deviation and to monitor vehicles, wildlife sightings and tourists.
• The Union draft notification on the Western Ghats eco-sensitive area covers 56,825.7 sq km in six States, of which Karnataka has 20,668 sq km, the largest share. Karnataka asked the Centre to wait for a state survey.
• Nearly 30% of the water bodies in Karnataka are used mainly for groundwater recharge, the second-highest share among southern states after Tamil Nadu at 34.3%.
• Telangana ended the 2026 monsoon with 615.5 mm of rain against a normal 740.6 mm, a 17% deficit. August was the worst month at 38% below normal and Jogulamba Gadwal the driest district.
• Kerala's first river museum will be set up at Vallakkadavu in Thiruvananthapuram, and a tribal university is planned in Wayanad.
• Tamil Nadu has India's first dugong conservation reserve, covering 448.34 sq km of Palk Bay. A 2026 Wildlife Institute of India count found 270 dugongs, 158 in Palk Bay and 112 in the Gulf of Mannar.
• Project Nilgiri Tahr counted 1,364 Nilgiri tahr in Tamil Nadu in 2026, up from 1,303 in 2025. The state animal is protected under the project.
• The National Green Tribunal banned construction within 1 km of the Pallikaranai Ramsar wetland in Chennai. The state wetlands authority proposed an interim zone of influence of 128.19 hectares.
• The Jeypore ground gecko, endemic to the Eastern Ghats of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, was rediscovered in 2010 after 130 years, but a proposed bauxite mine threatens its habitat.
• 2 Oct — Rajasthan's water drive: Vande Ganga Jal Sanrakshan Jan Abhiyan saw over 7 lakh activities, and the "Karmabhoomi se Matribhoomi" campaign built about 9,000 recharge shafts. Ram Jal Setu Link will serve 17 eastern districts.

Part 3

2 Oct – 15 Oct

Environment & Ecology: 14.

• 2 Oct — Tigress T138, moved from Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar, was released in Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, to open Wildlife Week 2026 and begin a phased tiger recovery plan there.
• 2 Oct — The Mumbai Port Authority declared the Jawahar Dweep Marine Oil Terminal plastic-free on 2 October 2026, called India's first plastic-free oil terminal. Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal led the Swachhata Abhiyan programme.
• 2 Oct — Assam's wildlife tourism season began with Manas National Park reopening on 2 October, Kaziranga on 3 October and Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary scheduled for 13 October.
• 3 Oct — Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta launched a waste processing project on 3 October 2026 that has reclaimed about 100 acres of land from the city's existing landfill sites.
• 5 Oct — Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav released two captive-bred male Great Indian Bustards at Sam in Desert National Park, Jaisalmer. The breeding centres at Sam and Ramdevra now hold 97 birds.
• 7 Oct — Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve (also called Nauradehi, about 2,339 sq km in Sagar, Damoh and Narsinghpur) is Madhya Pradesh's largest tiger reserve. Cheetahs Vyom and Neera were released there from Kuno on 7 October.
• 8 Oct — The Central Zoo Authority and IIFM, Bhopal held a three-day regional training for zookeepers of Central India. The Central Zoo Authority is a statutory body set up in 1992 under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
• 8 Oct — The markhor population in the Kazinag landscape of J&K is estimated at 227 in 2026, up about 71% from 133 in 2005, per a Wildlife Trust of India and J&K Wildlife Department study.
• 10 Oct — A group of 53 animal welfare bodies asked for an independent probe into the transfer of five young elephants from Assam to temples in Tamil Nadu, citing the Captive Elephant (Transfer or Transport) Rules, 2024.
• 11 Oct — A radio-tagged Madras hedgehog gave birth at Peikulam in Thoothukudi on 11 October 2026, the first breeding record of the Madras Hedgehog Conservation Project, led by the Advanced Institute for Wildlife Conservation.
• 14 Oct — Chhattisgarh approved moving 50 blackbucks from Barnawapara (Baloda Bazar) to Gomarda Wildlife Sanctuary (Sarangarh-Bilaigarh), where the species vanished over five decades ago. Barnawapara's herd began with 77 animals in 2017-18.
• 15 Oct — Asiatic lions have returned to Barda Wildlife Sanctuary after about 144 years, with an estimated 17 lions (six adults and 11 cubs). Barda lies in Porbandar and Devbhumi Dwarka districts, was notified in 1979, and covers 192.31 sq km.
• 15 Oct — The northeast monsoon set in over Tamil Nadu about five days before its normal date of 20 October. The southwest monsoon had ended with a 20% rainfall deficit in the state.
• 15 Oct — Researchers described a new damselfly species, Dysphaea assamensis, from Karbi Anglong; it was earlier mistaken for the Sapphire Torrent Dart (Dysphaea walli), based on five male specimens.

Part 4

15 Oct – 23 Oct

Environment & Ecology: 14.

• 15 Oct — The Assam Forest Department launched the Nameri Wild Classroom at Nameri Tiger Reserve (Sonitpur) for students of Class 8 and above, with birdwatching, forest walks and rafting on the Jia-Bharali river.
• 15 Oct — Among the Ladakh projects opened by the PM on 15 October were India's first Petroglyph Conservation Park at Sindhu Ghat, Leh, the 9 MW Hanu small hydro project and Project Him Sarovar covering 40 water bodies in 40 villages.
• 17 Oct — Parrys in Chennai recorded 36 cm of rain on the night of 17 October 2026, the highest in the city. The IMD said it was not a cloudburst but heavy rain from an upper-air circulation.
• 20 Oct — WWF-India (EIACP PC-RP), with the Environment Ministry's support, runs the Green Diwali Campaign 2026 from 20 October to 8 November in 130 NCAP cities.
• 20 Oct — The Green Diwali Campaign is linked to Mission LiFE, which was announced at COP26 Glasgow in 2021 and launched on 20 October 2022 at Ekta Nagar, Gujarat.
• 20 Oct — Gujarat approved a Centre of Excellence for Joint Forest Management at Balethi village in Surat district. It will train about 7,500 members of forest committees over five years using the village's community forest model.
• 20 Oct — Gauhati University botanists rediscovered the shrub Ardisia colorata at Abhaypuri, Bongaigaon, its first confirmed record in India in about 204 years; only 12 plants were found.
• 21 Oct — The Commission for Air Quality Management enforced GRAP Stage 1 in Delhi-NCR on 21 October 2026 after Delhi's AQI rose to 244 from 179 a day earlier. Stage 1 applies when the AQI is between 201 and 300.
• 22 Oct — The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) reviewed stubble burning with Punjab and Haryana in Chandigarh under Chair Rajesh Verma, referring to its Directions No. 99 and No. 92.
• 22 Oct — Punjab recorded 510 stubble-burning incidents by 22 October 2026, with Tarn Taran (247) and Amritsar (136) leading; environmental compensation was imposed in 184 cases, against 5,114 cases in the whole of last season.
• 22 Oct — The Bombay High Court called Mumbai's air quality an emergency on 22 October 2026 and ordered civic bodies to submit an action plan on dust control and industrial emissions.
• 22 Oct — The Arignar Anna Zoological Park, Vandalur, was closed on 22 and 23 October after H5N1 avian influenza was confirmed in its water birds. Seven birds died between 3 and 7 October.
• 22 Oct — Two new blind subterranean fish, Gitchak nakana and Rakthamichthys anchi, were found in wells in Goalpara district, Assam, showing the value of groundwater ecosystems.
• 23 Oct — The 7th Agrivoltaics World Conference, on 21-23 October at Bharat Mandapam, was organised by MNRE, the first time in the Global South. The theme was "Powering the Global South", and it links to PM-KUSUM.

Part 5

23 Oct – 25 Oct

Environment & Ecology: 13.

• 23 Oct — India's Snow Leopard Population Assessment (SPAI) counted 718 snow leopards: Ladakh 477, Uttarakhand 124, Himachal Pradesh 51, Arunachal Pradesh 36, Sikkim 21 and Jammu and Kashmir 9.
• 23 Oct — The snow leopard is the state animal of Himachal Pradesh and the animal symbol of Ladakh. It is Vulnerable on the IUCN list and has been in CITES Appendix I since 1975.
• 23 Oct — Gujarat will install rooftop solar systems at 800 offices of its Agriculture and Animal Husbandry department, expected to generate about 31.94 lakh units a year and save around Rs 2.5 crore on power bills.
• 23 Oct — Assam plans to use satellite and AI surveillance to detect forest encroachment early, and has ordered such monitoring for the state's forests.
• 23 Oct — Maharashtra Environment Minister Pankaja Munde announced a clean air action programme for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region; the department also plans a state-wide M-CAP with ₹200-300 crore from MPCB funds, modelled on the 2019 National Clean Air Programme.
• 23 Oct — Gauhati University researchers identified a new flowering plant, Osbeckia assamensis, in the grasslands of Manas National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Baksa and Chirang districts.
• 24 Oct — A Rs 12 crore, 12-acre rain forest project near the Statue of Unity in Gujarat is scheduled to be inaugurated by PM Modi on 31 October.
• 24 Oct — Naz Ozair of Kurhani block, Muzaffarpur, makes cups, plates and straws from waste corn husks to replace single-use plastic; his patent certificate is dated 21 February 2024 and his startup is MNO Swadeshi India.
• 24 Oct — On World Gibbon Day, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the Hoolock gibbon holds a special place in the state's natural heritage and highlighted the canopy bridge initiative for the animals.
• 24 Oct — Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced a 'No PUC, No Fuel' policy to curb winter pollution. Delhi's Winter Action Plan may also bar certain vehicles from 1 November 2026.
• 24 Oct — A low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is expected to cross the south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coast by 28 October 2026, and forecasters expect it to become a cyclone to be named Arnab.
• 25 Oct — He cited the revival of the Havel river in Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, through rainwater harvesting, groundwater recharge and large-scale tree planting, which also brought back dozens of natural water sources.
• 25 Oct — Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena declared Ladakh India's first 100% organic Union Territory; the sale and use of chemical and synthetic fertilisers had been banned across the UT in July 2026.

Part 1

16 one-liners

Sports: 16.

• The ICC has fixed the LA28 Olympic cricket qualifiers for January-February 2028: eight teams will compete for one final place in each six-team event, and Australia, India, South Africa and Great Britain already have direct women's places.
• Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya set up a seven-member committee, with members like Dilip Tirkey and Mahesh Bhupathi, to review and revive the Hockey India League.
• Haryana's Rinku Hooda (Rohtak) won the men's javelin F46 gold at the Asian Para Games with 65.11 m, a season best. Ajeet Singh Yadav took silver (65.02 m) and Indonesia's R. Saktyono bronze (55.30 m).
• Rinku Hooda won the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships gold and finished fifth at both the Rio 2016 and Paris 2024 Paralympics. He is from Rohtak, Haryana.
• On the way to bronze, Desai and Ghorpade beat South Korea's Park Ganghyeon and Lee Daeun 3-2 in the quarter-final after trailing 0-2. India's last mixed doubles medallists at the event were Meena Parande and Yatin Vyas (silver, 1954).
• Haryana won the 16th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship 2026, with the Division A final played at Jhansi. The exact date of the final is not confirmed.
• Arshi Gupta became the youngest driver to win the 2026 Rotax MAX Challenge Mini title.
• Reena Bhatti of Hisar, Haryana, climbed the 7,355 m Abi Gamin peak in Uttarakhand during a 23-day expedition; she was the only woman in the 12-member team.
• The 94th Fit India Sundays on Cycle drive was held in Varanasi from Namo Ghat to Diksha Mandap under the theme 'Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat', organised by the Sports Ministry with the Cycling Federation of India.
• Neeru Dhanda of Jind also won silver in the women's trap team event at the Asian Games with Aashima Ahlawat and Manisha Keer, scoring 328 points, behind China and ahead of Kuwait.
• Six teams play the Asian Champions Trophy in Punjab: India, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, China and Bangladesh, which replaced Pakistan; India, captained by Harmanpreet Singh, has won the title five times.
• Ahmedabad hosted the BRICS Traditional and Indigenous Demonstration Games 2026 at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex. Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya proposed a voluntary BRICS Repository of Traditional and Indigenous Sports.
• The deciding fifth T20I between India and the West Indies at Bengaluru was abandoned due to rain, so the series ended 2-2.
• At the Asian Para Games 2026, Alphia James of Kerala and Pallavi Kaluvelli of Karnataka won bronze in badminton doubles, India's first Para Asian Games badminton medal.
• Kerala athletes Ancy Sojan and Murali Sreeshankar won silver in the women's and men's long jump at the 2026 Asian Games, and Vidarsha K. Vinod became the first Malayali with two Asian Games shooting medals.
• Mohammed Basil, a Malayali sprinter, won silver in the men's 100 m at the Asian Para Games 2026, where the Games record was broken by both medallists.

Part 2

2 Oct – 16 Oct

Sports: 16.

• Vithya Ramraj won bronze in the women's 400 m hurdles at the Asian Games 2026 in 54.75 seconds, beating P. T. Usha's national record of 1984. She was the first Tamil Nadu woman with three medals at one Games.
• At the Asian Para Games 2026, Dharmaraj Solairaj retained his long jump gold with an Asian record of 7.15 m and Tamil Nadu announced Rs 75 lakh for him. Thulasimathi Murugesan also won gold in badminton doubles.
• Tamil Nadu announced Rs 75 lakh for cricketer Washington Sundar, a member of the Indian team that won the Asian Games 2026 cricket gold.
• Seventeen-year-old tennis player Maya Rajeswaran Revathi of Coimbatore became the youngest Indian woman to win a professional singles title, beating Sania Mirza's 22-year-old record.
• 2 Oct — The Pratibha Yojana was launched to spot sporting talent among 70 lakh+ school children aged 8 to 14. Portals for Pratibha, Khel Mitra and Khelo Rajasthan Games were also started.
• 2 Oct — The State honoured Asian Games shooter Anantjeet Singh Naruka with a cheque of Rs 60 lakh. A cheque of Rs 1 crore was also given to Kushagra Singh Rajawat.
• 2 Oct — India's women's hockey team beat China 1-0 to win the Asian Games gold, its first Asian Games gold since 1982. Lovlina Borgohain (75 kg) won boxing gold the same day.
• 3 Oct — West Indies won the 3rd ODI at Mullanpur by 5 wickets, so India won the ODI series 2-1. Shubman Gill was Player of the Series. The 5-match T20I series later ended 2-2.
• 3 Oct — Odisha announced Rs 11 lakh for each player and Rs 5.5 lakh for each support staff member of India's Asian Games gold-winning women's hockey team. Odisha has sponsored the national hockey teams since 2018 and will do so until 2036.
• 4 Oct — Chief Minister Hemant Soren felicitated Jharkhand's Asian Games gold-winning women's hockey players Salima Tete, Nikki Pradhan, Beauty Dungdung and Deepika Soreng at his Ranchi residential office.
• 5 Oct — Cricketer Renuka Thakur of Himachal Pradesh, who was part of the women's cricket team that won Asian Games gold, was also named for a Rs 1 crore reward by the state government.
• 6 Oct — Novak Djokovic won a record seventh China Open title in Beijing when Alex de Minaur retired hurt in the final. It was Djokovic's 102nd tour-level title.
• 7 Oct — A 17-member Indian Coast Guard team, flagged off by CM Dhami at Dehradun, reached the summit of Mount Mukut (7,045 m) on 7 October, as training for a planned 2027 Mount Everest expedition.
• 7 Oct — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah opened Rs 30.35 crore sports facilities at the Sher-i-Kashmir Multi Sports Activity Centre, Srinagar, including Kashmir's first Olympic-sized swimming pool and an indoor gymnastics hall.
• 11 Oct — Max Verstappen won the Singapore Grand Prix at Marina Bay for his first win there, his 73rd career win. Charles Leclerc was second and Kimi Antonelli third.
• 16 Oct — At Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, Odisha gave Rs 5.61 crore to India's gold-winning Asian Games men's and women's hockey teams, plus Rs 20 lakh each to Odisha's Amit Rohidas, Shilanand Lakra and Sunelita Toppo.

Part 3

19 Oct – 23 Oct

Sports: 16.

• 19 Oct — Mizoram's Chinmay Sutar made his unbeaten Ranji Trophy 400 off 517 balls against Nagaland at Sovima. The only higher Ranji score is Bhausaheb Nimbalkar's 443 not out (1948); next come Prithvi Shaw 379, Sanjay Manjrekar 377, and M.V. Sridhar and Tanmay Agarwal 366.
• 19 Oct — Mona Agarwal won gold in women's 10 m air rifle standing SH1 with a Games record 250.0; Avani Lekhara took silver with 249.6. Mona's qualifying score of 629.1 was a Games qualification record; the world record is 629.4.
• 19 Oct — The Ranji Trophy is run by the BCCI and named after Ranjitsinhji. It was announced in 1934, its first season was 1934-35, and the trophy was donated by Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala.
• 21 Oct — The first Chhattisgarh Hockey League runs from 21 October to 1 November at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Hockey Stadium, Raipur; Union MoS Raksha Khadse inaugurated it and its tagline is "Chalo Re Sangi, Hockey Khelbo".
• 22 Oct — India beat New Zealand by 4 wickets with 2 balls left in the 1st T20I at Hagley Oval, Christchurch. NZ made 225/4 (Glenn Phillips 82 off 40) and India 230/6. Sanju Samson was Player of the Match, and Naman Dhir also contributed. India lead the 5-match series 1-0.
• 22 Oct — Reports name Shreyas Iyer as India's captain and Mitchell Santner as New Zealand's captain for the T20 series in New Zealand.
• 22 Oct — England's Harry Brook scored 202 off 116 balls against Sri Lanka at Rawalpindi, the fastest men's ODI double century (200 in 114 balls, beating Shubman Gill's 117). He is the first England batter with a men's ODI double century.
• 22 Oct — Sri Lanka chased England's 433/8 and won by two wickets at Rawalpindi on 22 October. Brook's 202 passed the previous England best men's ODI score, 182 by Ben Stokes.
• 22 Oct — Rajgir hosts an India versus New Zealand U20 rugby series from 22 to 28 October 2026, with Rugby Sevens matches on 27 October. It marks 100 years of India-New Zealand sporting ties.
• 22 Oct — Ahmedabad hosts the Western Asian Youth and Junior Chess Championships from 22 to 31 October 2026 at Rajpath Club, organised by the Gujarat State Chess Association, with Open and Girls sections from Under-8 to Under-20.
• 22 Oct — Para-archer Sheetal Devi of Kishtwar won silver in the women's doubles archery with Payal Nag at the Asian Para Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
• 23 Oct — Pankaj Advani won the WBL World Billiards Championship by beating England's Robert Hall 1,906-1,206 in the final at Great Wyrley, England. It is his 29th world title across billiards and snooker and his 21st in billiards.
• 23 Oct — Shruthi Lakshminarayanan retained the women's title at the same world billiards championship, winning it for the third year in a row.
• 23 Oct — At the European Chess Club Cup in Budva, Montenegro (17-23 October), Nihal Sarin won individual gold on Board 2 in the open section with 5/6, and Koneru Humpy took gold on Board 2 in the women's section with 4.5/6.
• 23 Oct — The AITA all-women coaches course in Delhi was addressed by MoS Sports Raksha Khadse under the ACE 2032 initiative; ASMITA women's leagues under Khelo India have reached over 3 lakh women since 2021.
• 23 Oct — Haryana's athletes won 32 medals, including 14 of India's 21 golds, at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan; gold winners from the state include Parveen Hooda (boxing) and Sujeet Kalkal (wrestling).

Part 4

23 Oct

Sports: 16.

• 23 Oct — India's earlier best at the Asian Para Games was at Hangzhou 2023; reports give 111 medals, or 108 after three medals were removed for doping. India sent 168 athletes to Japan, against 309 to Hangzhou.
• 23 Oct — By sport, India's Asian Para Games 2026 medals included para athletics 65 (22 gold, 19 silver, 24 bronze), para badminton 16 (3 gold), para swimming 11, para table tennis 7 bronze, para archery 6 and para shooting 5.
• 23 Oct — Sandeep Kumar won the men's 400 m T64 gold at the Asian Para Games with a world record time of 52.28 seconds.
• 23 Oct — India swept the men's javelin podium at the Asian Para Games: Sumit Antil gold, Mahendra Gurjar silver and Sandip Sanjay Sargar bronze. Gurjar and Sargar both set Games records.
• 23 Oct — Sheetal Devi won the women's compound individual para archery gold, and the compound mixed team gold with Toman Kumar by beating Indonesia 151-148. Their ranking-round total of 1,402 beat the old record of 1,400.
• 23 Oct — Swati Chaudhary won silver in the women's individual W1 archery, reported as India's first W1 medal at the Asian Para Games.
• 23 Oct — Pooja Jatyan and Bhawna Choudhary won silver in the women's recurve doubles, India's first medal in that event. Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi won the recurve doubles gold.
• 23 Oct — Suvarna Raj won the women's discus throw F54 gold at the Asian Para Games.
• 23 Oct — Sachin Sarjerao Khilari won the men's F46 shot put gold at the Asian Para Games.
• 23 Oct — Para badminton golds on 23 October: Nitesh Kumar (men's singles SL3, beat Pramod Bhagat 21-18, 21-16), Naveen Sivakumar (SL4, beat Indonesia's Fredy Setiawan 21-9, 21-17) and Thulasimathi Murugesan with Manasi Joshi (women's doubles SL3-SU5).
• 23 Oct — Para badminton classes: WH1 and WH2 are wheelchair classes, SL3 and SL4 are standing lower-limb classes, SU5 is upper limb, and SH6 is short stature.
• 23 Oct — Simran won gold in both the women's 100 m and 200 m T12 at the Asian Para Games, setting a Games record.
• 23 Oct — Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade won bronze in mixed doubles at the 29th ITTF-ATTU Asian Table Tennis Championships in Tashkent, India's first mixed doubles medal there in 72 years. They lost the semi-final to Japan's Sora Matsushima and Miwa Harimoto 9-11, 9-11, 8-11.
• 23 Oct — The inaugural Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026 is held on 23-31 October at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex, Ahmedabad, with 13 nations, 23 squads, over 400 athletes and 62 matches (39 men's, 23 women's).
• 23 Oct — The Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship is organised by the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) with approval of the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF). Semi-finals are on 30 October and finals on 31 October.
• 23 Oct — Nations at the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Uganda, England, Scotland and Australia.

Part 5

23 Oct – 25 Oct

Sports: 16.

• 23 Oct — India's captains for the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship are Surjeet Singh (men, vice-captain Naveen Kumar) and Nidhi Sharma (women, vice-captain Ritu).
• 23 Oct — The Khelo India Games will be held in Telangana from 11 December, and the state has stepped up its preparations for the event.
• 23 Oct — Delhi Education and Sports Minister Ashish Sood inaugurated the 70th National School Games at Thyagraj Stadium. The games cover 14 sports, expect over 14,000 players and officials, and are organised by the School Games Federation of India.
• 24 Oct — P V Sindhu beat Japan's Hina Akechi 21-10, 20-22, 21-16 in the semi-final of the French Open Super 750 in Paris, and was to meet world No. 1 An Se-young of South Korea in the final on 25 October.
• 24 Oct — Coming up: the Summer Youth Olympics will be held in Dakar, Senegal, from 31 October to 13 November.
• 24 Oct — Coming up: the 3rd T20I between India and New Zealand is reported to be on 27 October at Wellington.
• 24 Oct — The ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup 2027, its 3rd edition, will be held on 21 January-6 February 2027 with 16 teams, jointly hosted by Bangladesh and Nepal. The final is at the Matiur Rahman Stadium, Chattogram.
• 24 Oct — India won the U19 Women's T20 World Cup in 2023 (South Africa) and 2025 (Malaysia). In 2027 India are in Group A with Ireland, West Indies and Nepal and open against West Indies on 22 January at Kirtipur.
• 24 Oct — A team of 11 youths from Mumbai's chawls and slums was reported to have won gold at the first Box Langdi World Cup in Nepal (23-25 October), beating Thailand 19-15 in the final.
• 24 Oct — Two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra met children at Sports University Haryana, Sonepat, for the UBS Athletics Kids Cup (ages 7-15) and said he plans to return to competition in May 2027 after an ankle injury.
• 24 Oct — Kerala Blasters FC were allotted the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi, for their 2026-27 ISL home matches at Rs 3.5 lakh per game after the government stepped in to reduce the rent.
• 24 Oct — Odisha's Jayanti Behera won silver in the women's 400 m T47 at the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, in 1:00.65. Odisha's Payal Nag also took silver in women's para compound doubles.
• 25 Oct — Punjab hosts the Hero Asian Champions Trophy (men's hockey) from 27 October to 5 November: league matches at Jalandhar's Surjit Singh stadium, and semi-finals and final at the Balbir Singh stadium, Mohali.
• 25 Oct — Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann felicitated 17-year-old Jagsher Singh Khangurra of Nabha, who won bronze in the boys' singles at the BWF World Junior Championships in Cairo.
• 25 Oct — The third Kashmir International Marathon was flagged off in Srinagar by CM Omar Abdullah with about 2,000 runners; Kenyans Kanab Kalob Omolo and Lemensa Harpaa won the men's and women's full marathons.
• 25 Oct — The Kerala School Sports Meet opened in Kozhikode on 25 October 2026, with 9,309 athletes competing across 10 venues.

Part 1

13 one-liners

Awards & Honours: 13.

Part 2

1 Oct – 12 Oct

Awards & Honours: 13.

Part 3

12 Oct – 22 Oct

Awards & Honours: 13.

Part 4

22 Oct – 24 Oct

Awards & Honours: 12.

Part 1

1 Oct – 5 Oct

Appointments: 15.

Part 2

6 Oct – 25 Oct

Appointments: 15.

Part 1

1 Oct – 12 Oct

Important Days: 13.

• Chhattisgarh Rajyotsava on 1 November 2026 has the theme 'Beautiful, Prosperous and Naxal-free Chhattisgarh', and Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to attend. The state was formed on 1 November 2000.
• 1 Oct — International Day of Older Persons on 1 October 2026 had the theme "The Age of Longevity: Rethinking Systems for Longer Lives". The UN General Assembly set the day in 1990.
• 2 Oct — Governor Haribhau Bagde and Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma paid tribute at Gandhi Circle, JLN Marg, Jaipur on the birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
• 2 Oct — Rajasthan's key office-bearers in the news: Governor Haribhau Bagde, Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, Deputy CM Dr Prem Chand Bairwa, Chief Secretary V. Srinivas and DGP Rajeev Kumar Sharma.
• 2 Oct — National Wildlife Week was held from 2 to 8 October 2026, its 72nd edition, with the theme "Connecting Habitats, Thriving Wildlife".
• 5 Oct — World Teachers' Day on 5 October 2026 marked 60 years of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation on the Status of Teachers. The global event was held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
• 5 Oct — World Habitat Day was observed on 5 October with the theme "Adequate Housing for All". The global event was held in Muscat, Oman.
• 9 Oct — World Post Day on 9 October 2026 had the theme "One Postal Network, Infinite Possibilities". It marks the 1874 founding of the Universal Postal Union in Bern.
• 10 Oct — World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2026 had the theme "Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change".
• 10 Oct — About 200 NCC cadets from 22 states began drill training in Ahmedabad on 10 October 2026 for the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas parade at the Statue of Unity, Kevadia, on 31 October, the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel.
• 11 Oct — International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October 2026 had the theme "End Child Marriage and Invest in Girls' Rights!". Cricketer Smriti Mandhana was named UNICEF India's Celebrity Advocate.
• 12 Oct — World Arthritis Day on 12 October 2026 had the theme "Achieve Your Dreams". It was set up in 1996 by Arthritis and Rheumatism International.
• 12 Oct — Bihar will observe the birth anniversary of Kailashpati Mishra, a former minister and former Governor, as a state function every year on 5 October, the Bihar Cabinet decided on 12 October.

Part 2

12 Oct – 23 Oct

Important Days: 13.

• 12 Oct — The 135th birth anniversary of Tamil scholar S. Vaiyapuri Pillai (1891-1956) was marked on 12 October 2026. He edited the University of Madras Tamil Lexicon of 1,17,762 words.
• 13 Oct — International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October 2026 had the theme "Resilience Starts at Home". The UN General Assembly designated the day in 2009.
• 14 Oct — World Standards Day is observed on 14 October by the IEC, ISO and ITU. The 2026 theme focused on affordable and clean energy (SDG 7).
• 15 Oct — World Students' Day is observed on 15 October on the birth anniversary of Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. In 2026 it was his 95th birth anniversary.
• 15 Oct — International Day of Rural Women on 15 October 2026 had the theme "Rural Women Farmers Caring for Mother Nature". The UN designated the day in 2007.
• 16 Oct — World Food Day on 16 October 2026 marked the 81st anniversary of the FAO with the theme "Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow." The global event was held in Rome.
• 16 Oct — Veerapandiya Kattabomman, the Palayakkarar of Panchalankurichi who refused to pay tribute to the British, is remembered on 16 October. He was hanged at Kayathar in 1799.
• 18 Oct — International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week is observed on 18-24 October. The 14th edition has the theme "From Detection to Prevention".
• 21 Oct — On Police Commemoration Day, 21 October 2026, Amit Shah flagged off a nationwide police motorcycle rally themed Fight Against Drugs. The riders will gather at Ekta Nagar, Gujarat, on 31 October.
• 21 Oct — On Police Commemoration Day (21 October) Chief Minister Vijay gave Rs 5.96 crore to families of police killed on duty; six Tamil Nadu police died on duty this year, of 154 nationally.
• 22 Oct — International Stuttering Awareness Day is observed on 22 October. The 2026 theme is "SHADES OF STUTTERING - What's yours?"; it was first observed in 1998.
• 23 Oct — International Snow Leopard Day is observed on 23 October. It follows UNGA resolution A/RES/79/143 of 12 December 2024 and the 2013 Bishkek Declaration signed by the 12 range countries.
• 23 Oct — Uttar Pradesh planned to mark Valmiki Jayanti on 26 October 2026 in all 75 districts with Deepdaan and Ramayana recitations, with major events at Chitrakoot, Ayodhya, Kanpur (Bithoor), Shravasti and Prayagraj.

Part 3

24 Oct – 25 Oct

Important Days: 11.

• 24 Oct — Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week is observed from 24 to 31 October; its 2026 theme is "We All Play a Part - Media and Information Literacy for the People", and it is led by UNESCO.
• 24 Oct — United Nations Day (24 October) marks the 81st anniversary of the UN Charter coming into force on 24 October 1945. The UN has 193 members, South Sudan the newest (2011), and its HQ is in New York.
• 24 Oct — World Polio Day (24 October) marks Jonas Salk's birth anniversary and is led by Rotary International. India was declared polio-free on 27 March 2014; its last case was on 13 January 2011 in Howrah.
• 24 Oct — Coming up: J&K Accession Day on 26 October (1947) and Infantry Day (Shaurya Diwas) on 27 October, marking the landing of the 1st Sikh Regiment at Srinagar in 1947.
• 24 Oct — Coming up: National Unity Day on 31 October, the 151st birth anniversary of Sardar Patel (Statue of Unity, Kevadia), and World Cities Day on the same day.
• 24 Oct — Coming up: Public Service Broadcasting Day on 12 November. World Tsunami Awareness Day is observed on 5 November.
• 24 Oct — The 225th anniversary of the hanging of Periya and Chinna Marudhu at Tiruppathur fort on 24 October 1801 was recalled; their Jambudweep Proclamation was issued on 16 June 1801.
• 25 Oct — The 139th episode of Mann Ki Baat, PM Modi's monthly radio programme, was scheduled to air on 25 October 2026 at 11 AM.
• 25 Oct — Vigilance Awareness Week runs from 26 October to 1 November 2026 under the theme "Probity for Prosperity", in the week of Sardar Patel's birth anniversary (31 October).
• 25 Oct — India will mark the 100th birth anniversary of Narinder Singh Kapany, the "Father of Fiber Optics" born in Moga, Punjab, on 31 October 2026; the PM urged youth to read about him.
• 25 Oct — The PM recalled that Bhai Parmanand, an Arya Samaj leader and a founding member of the Ghadar Party, has his birth anniversary on 4 November.